Art review: The body, seen through ancient Greek eyes, at Dallas Museum of Art

In Benjamin Britten’s operaBilly Budd, the well-read Captain Vere looks up from a volume of Plutarch. “The Greeks and the Romans,” he sings. “Their troubles and ours are the same.”

As with today’s United States, the two countries in their turns were dominant forces in worlds riven by

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